that is the demand that god is making on us-- not us on god so much as god on us-- to do something about the evil in the world. >> narrator: we don't know to what extent jesus remained faithful to john's apocalyptic message, but at some point after his baptism by john, jesus seems to have embarked on his career as a preacher. >> ( dramatized ): jesus went throughout galilee, teaching in the synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness among the people. >> jesus' career apparently was centered mostly in the towns and villages and a few small cities in the area of the galilee, his home region. >> jesus' ministry in the galilee is rather complicated, but i think we can begin to get the real better understanding of it through archaeology and through higher literary studies of the gospels today. those villages there were absolutely essential to his ministry. he's avoiding the big towns, or cities, probably because the elements who run those cities are of such a high class that they're probably not interested in jesus' message. >> narrato